He has made a joke of Loris Karius’s concussion and claimed that he’d have played through the injury Mo Salah picked up with an injection, too.

“Bloody hell, they’ve given this a lot of attention, the Salah thing. I didn’t want to speak because everything is magnified,” he told AS.

“I see the play well, he grabs my arm first and I fell to the other side, the injury happened to the other arm and they said that I gave him a judo hold. After the goalkeeper said that I dazed him in a clash with me I am only missing Firmino saying that he got a cold because a drop of my sweat landed on him.”

“I spoke with Salah through messages. He was quite good. He could have played if he got an injection for the second half, I have done it sometimes but when Ramos does something like this, it sticks a little bit more. I don’t know if it’s because you’re at Madrid for so long and win for so long that people look at it a different way.”

Concussion in football should be taken seriously – which it really hasn’t been since the news about Karius broke.

Many fans have made ridiculous claims about how the concussion is invented by Liverpool as a conspiracy to take some of the blame away from the German, despite official medical reports.

What’s more, there’s been huge ignorance about concussion in general, as there’s no guarantee Karius would have any knowledge of a problem while he was on the field, which rubbishes the ‘Why didn’t he go off?’ claims.

Lastly, Salah is unlikely to play the first match of the World Cup, so we’re not sure what kind of injection Ramos has available to him at Real Madrid.